In remarks to about 250 supporters in the auditorium of a Masonic lodge, the surging Republican presidential hopeful and former Pennsylvania senator didnt directly refer to any of his recent campaign-trail statements that have drawn controversy.

-snip-

The audience applauded, as did the man, who earlier in the speech was holding up a sign that read, Drudge wants Mitt. AZ picks Rick.

just the opposite ... Santorum’s responses the these “controversies” have actually made me like him better, and I am hoping the CNN moderator can’t help himself and asks Santorum something about this a lot in the debate tonight

Has anyone else noted they attacked Rick, and last cycle they always referred to Huckabee as a former Baptist Pastor. I have yet to see anyone in media to point out that Romney was Bishop in Mormon church and thus was a pastor in the mormon religion and that some of the peculiar beliefs that mormons hold that those in evangelical Christianity consider them in the “cult” category rather than Christian?
Hello Matt Drudge, how about that?

Santorum is on a roll and picking up steam. I like how he is fighting now where in the beginning when he was so far off the radar he sounded weak and whiney. He definitely has more of a presidential swagger than he ever did before and I like it!

I can tell you, the reason I think were doing well in this campaign is because were being available to the American public, Santorum told a mostly subdued crowd that filled only the front portion of the sprawling auditorium.

If this is true welcome to 4 more years of Obama...

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posted on 02/22/2012 6:04:27 AM PST
by Doofer
(Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)

As a matter of intellectual honesty, you surely can’t believe that Old Media has looked the other way on Mitt Romney being a Mormon. Google “Maureen Dowd” plus “Mitt Romney” as just one example, but do it on an empty stomach.

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posted on 02/22/2012 6:33:01 AM PST
by jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)

The GOP establishment can’t come out and stick a knife in Rick’s back because he played good soldier and went along in supporting Arlen Specter. If they backstab him now nobody will ever go along with that again. Instead they are forced to use surrogates.

yeah I did think he did well debate wise, but the media never talked to him. The first debate was all Romeny and all Perry. Looking back you know who they wanted as front runners so they could lead them to slaughter against Obama.

Santorum was complaining about his lack of time during the debates and I agreed with him, but the media portrayed him as whiney and he sort of came across like that initially. Now he has some cajones and I like it.

Mostly because they are waiting until he is the nominee. There is a difference between referencing the one Dowd piece and what the other poster mentioned. Huckabee and Santorum are referenced in virtually EVERY article, tv news piece and internet post as Pastor or social right winger or whatever term fits the moment to spread the message that each is some sort of out-of-step loony zealot. They are not doing this to Romney...at least not yet. If he moves on the general, we will get a heavy dose of Mormon paranoia from the media.

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posted on 02/22/2012 7:33:45 AM PST
by ilgipper
(Everything you get from the government was taken from someone else)

Keep praying. We are up against PHENOMINAL powers and interests here, both seen and unseen. It is going to get very, very tough for one Rick Santorum. However, he is proving he has the guts and mettle to withstand, and take this fight straight to the gates of hell if necessary, to right our sorry Ship of State. I for one have high hopes he gets the mocking, cynical, liberal, libertine mocking questions from CNN about faith. Rick will drive a telephone pole right smack through the midsections of these idiots and traitors in the MSM...

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posted on 02/22/2012 7:48:00 AM PST
by AmericanInTokyo
(Patience, my compatriots, PATIENCE! FR will be "Santorum Country" in a very short time, IMHO.)

Keep praying. We are up against PHENOMINAL powers and interests here, both seen and unseen. It is going to get very, very tough for one Rick Santorum. However, he is proving he has the guts and mettle to withstand, and take this fight straight to the gates of hell if necessary, to right our sorry Ship of State. I for one have high hopes he gets the mocking, cynical, liberal, libertine mocking questions from CNN about faith. Rick will drive a telephone pole right smack through the midsections of these idiots and traitors in the MSM...

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posted on 02/22/2012 7:48:25 AM PST
by AmericanInTokyo
(Patience, my compatriots, PATIENCE! FR will be "Santorum Country" in a very short time, IMHO.)

Keep praying. We are up against PHENOMINAL powers and interests here, both seen and unseen. It is going to get very, very tough for one Rick Santorum. However, he is proving he has the guts and mettle to withstand, and take this fight straight to the gates of hell if necessary, to right our sorry Ship of State. I for one have high hopes he gets the mocking, cynical, liberal, libertine mocking questions from CNN about faith. Rick will drive a telephone pole right smack through the midsections of these idiots and traitors in the MSM...

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posted on 02/22/2012 7:48:36 AM PST
by AmericanInTokyo
(Patience, my compatriots, PATIENCE! FR will be "Santorum Country" in a very short time, IMHO.)

The Leftist “Mainstream” for Obama media will be all over Romney if he wraps up the nomination, and they will run with every real or phoney belief that people fear about the Mormon religion.

Their attempt at making Santorum look nutty will be dwarfed by their assault on Mitt. Meanwhile, they will continue to ignore the Rev. “not so” Wright, black liberation theology, muslim connections and the questions about obama’s homosexuality.

Last line in the article: “The danger for Santorum? He risks alienating independent voters by keeping the focus on of some of his outside-the-mainstream remarks.”

Yeah, right, “outside-the-mainstream” of the average mainstream-media-journalist, that is; way outside. But maybe pretty mainstream when it come to the average American voter, eh?

The average journalist in this country, especially among the East/West Coasters, has no clue the impact religion has on the majority of people in this country, so they figure Santorum is just plain loon crazy to be defending himself, and picking on them while doing so. It’s a fight they’re not likely to win, and could cost them another few percent of their readership in their long, inevitable, slide to a profit-free, and salary-free, environment. Soon may it come.

Yes, and mainstream does not necessarily mean good or correct. At one point being anti-slavery was out of the mainstream, as was being in favor of women having the right to vote. When the left is way outside of the mainstream then it is seen as bold, daring, modern, avant garde, smart. For example, gay marriage is outside the mainstream, but that does not make it weird or bad from the media’s point of view. Their standard is that if they agree with it, it is good and if they don’t agree with it, it is bad. Really smart and objective journalism.

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